Music: The Christmas Dept.

Silent Night may be good enough for some people, but not for the
sales-bent pop music trade. By last week the industry could proudly
report that, since early fall, it has produced 87 new pop singles for
the Christmas marketwith Santa Glaus mentioned in the titles of only
26 of them.*

The cascade ranged in mood from Silent Night itself and a musical
rendering of the Lord's Prayer to a husky-voiced double-entendre by
Eartha Kitt entitled Santa Baby, and something called Cool Yule, sung
and trumpeted by Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. But inevitably, after the...